Diversity reports

June 15, 2018 - Written By Daniel Golightly Google has released its annual Diversity Report for 2018, showing attrition rates for the first time in the company’s history and very little change in diversity. That’s not to say that there haven’t been gains nearly across the board. However, the attrition rate shows that change has been much slower than many would have liked and that those improvements to diversity are offset by further challenges to be overcome. That’s because attrition is a representation of employee turnover and, in Google’s case, it shows a disconnect between the company’s goals and real-world accomplishments. That’s particularly true when considering the disparity between attrition and general employee diversity. For example, in terms of overall diversity, the categories defined as Black and Latinx have only risen by a single percent year over year. Those numbers landed at 2.5-percent and 3.6-percent, respectively. … [Read more...] about Google’s New Diversity Report Shows Little Change In 2018

By Rex Crum, The Mercury News Published 11:47 am, Wednesday, April 25, 2018 Photo: Dreamstime /TNS Image 1of/1 CaptionClose Image 1 of 1 "We still have a lot of work to do," Uber said Tuesday, April 24, 2018, as it released its latest company diversity report, revealing that women made mild gains in tech jobs over the last year at the ride-sharing giant. less "We still have a lot of work to do," Uber said Tuesday, April 24, 2018, as it released its latest company diversity report, revealing that women made mild gains in tech jobs over the last year at the ... more Photo: Dreamstime /TNS Uber’s diversity report shows mild gains for women in tech jobs 1 / 1 Back to Gallery “We still have a lot of work to do,” Uber said Tuesday as it released its latest company diversity report, revealing that … [Read more...] about Uber’s diversity report shows mild gains for women in tech jobs

CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says Uber is "just getting started" when it comes to improving diversity and inclusion. On Tuesday, the ridehailing behemoth released its second annual global diversity report following a tumultuous 2017 that put its corporate culture under the microscope. Uber has made some slight improvements when it comes to diversifying its workforce in the past year, but its far from time for the company to celebrate. "Frankly, I don't think we know what 'good' is yet. We know what 'better' is and we want to get better," said Khosrowshahi in an exclusive interview with CNNMoney. The report, which looks at Uber's global workforce from March 2017 to March 2018, revealed that just 18% of its technical workers -- such as engineers and IT specialists -- are women, up from 15% the year before. For comparison, Facebook's percentage of women in technical roles is 19%, according to its most recent diversity report. Khosrowshahi said the company didn't set specific goals for the … [Read more...] about Uber CEO on diversity report: We need to improve ‘across the board’

Uber released its second-ever diversity report on Tuesday, which shows how it's improved in some areas and in other areas, not so much.The ride-hailing company saw a slight increase in the number of women and people of color in its workforce. And some of this rise is in areas that usually skew white and male, such as technology and leadership. But other departments have seen decreases in women and African Americans."Diverse, inclusive teams are a company's greatest asset: they challenge assumptions, drive innovation, and we believe strongly they are a competitive advantage," Liane Hornsey, Uber's chief people officer, said in a blog post Tuesday. "We have made meaningful progress over the last year, but we still have a lot of work to do to increase representation of women and underrepresented groups."Of all tech companies, Uber likely has the most to prove in the diversity department. Last year it faced a reckoning that saw an exodus of high-level executives, five federal … [Read more...] about Uber’s staff is just slightly less white and male, diversity report finds

Even though tech giants like Intel and Apple release annual reports on diversity, very few tech companies are following suit. Dear Tech People dove into these murky waters to answer questions like “How many women work at Snap?” and “How many engineers at Docker are black?” The three co-creators of Dear Tech People — Dhruv Maheshwari, Adina Luo, and Wyatt Shapiro — analyzed 70,000 public profiles, and today they have released their ranking of the 100 most diverse and inclusive tech companies. Here are the top 10. To collect the data, Dear Tech People says it looked at public profiles (like LinkedIn) and used a combination of name analyzers, facial recognition technology, and manual identification through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to determine gender and race. “We’ve checked the accuracy of our data with the companies that do have publicly released data reports,” wrote Luo, in an email to VentureBeat. “We’ve … [Read more...] about Dear Tech People ranks Snap, Dropbox, Airbnb, and more in diversity report